Bracket-shelf.



No. 704,154. Patented July 8, I902.

R. R. WALKER.

BRACKET SHELF.

(Application filed Jan. 21,.1902.)

(No Model.)

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Q/Wfi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REINER-T R. 'WALKER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BRACKET-SHELF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. %,154, dated July 8,1902.

Application filed January 21, 1902. Serial No. 90,712. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REINERT R. WALKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bracket-Shelves, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is to produce a simple and inexpensivebracket-shelf and one which may be easily and quickly put up and takendown, all as will be hereinafter more particularly described andclaimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figurel is a perspective View of a shelf and its supporting-brackets embodyingmy said invention; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view through the shelfand alongside one of the brackets by which it is supported, illustratingthe construction and arrangement of parts; Fig. 3, an elevation of afragment of the upper member of one of the brackets detached from theother parts; Figut, a detail sectional view, on a much enlarged scale,through the rear edge of the shelf and an upper bracket member andshowing the plate or clip by which the shelf is secured to the bracketin elevation; Fig. 5, a perspective view, also on an enlarged scale, ofthe part illustrated by Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 a perspective view of one ofthe said plates or clips ready to be slipped onto and engage with thehori-' zontal member of the bracket.

The brackets 10 are formed of wire. The inner end 11 of the upper orhorizontal members thereof are shown as screw-threaded, and each has acollar or flange 12 secured thereto, which when the screw-threaded endis driven into the wall in putting the bracket in place will come incontact with the wall surface, stopping the movement at the properpoint. It also serves as a guard-plate against which the plate or clipon the shelf will bear when the shelf is placed thereon. It is alsoprovided with a notch n directly behind the collar or flange 12 withwhich said plate on the shelf will engage. The lower or inclined memberof the bracket has its lower end flattened and perforated and is securedto the wall by a screw 13. The shelf 1% is or may be in itself anordinary shelf and is adapted to rest on the brackets 10. At points onits rear side, just where it is designed to come in contact with thebrackets when put up, it has plates or clips 15, secured thereto, as byscrews 16, the slits wherein are narrower than the diameter of the Wireof which the brackets are made, but wide enough to slip over theportions of the brackets where the notches n are. Therefore in puttingup shelves of this character the shelf is first laid onto the bracketswith the plates orclips 15 a little to one side of the upper bracketmembers and is then slipped endwise until said plates or clips embracesaid members and en-= gage with said notches, so that the shelves arethereby held securely in position.

As will be readily understood, a bracketshelf so constructed is veryinexpensive, is easily and quickly put up and taken down, and when.taken down leaves but a very slight disfigurement of the wall to whichit has been attached.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what Iclaim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-= 1. The combination, in abracket-shelf, of wire brackets adapted to be secured to a Wall andprovided with notches extending trans versely thereof, and a shelfadapted to .be placed on said brackets and provided with clips adaptedto engage with said notches whereby the shelf is removably but securelyheld in place thereon, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a bracket-shelfl'of brackets composed of wireeach having a horizontal and an inclined member, the upper or horizontalmember being screw pointed at its rear end, and provided with a flangeor collar in front of the screw-pointed portion, and having a notch infront of the flange or collar, and a shelf provided with clips havingslits therein adapted to embrace those portions of the brackets wherethe notches are and to enter and engage with said notches, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 18th day of January, A. D. 1902.

REINERT a. WALKER. 1.. s]

